Electricity: Togo, Benin, Niger Republics To Settle $7m Outstanding Bills – FG - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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December 14, 2019
The Federal Government has asked theinternational electricity customers Niger, Togo, and Benin Republics to pay uptheir outstanding seven million dollars debt because “electricity is notcharity”.
The Chairman, West African PowerPool, WAAP Usman Gur Mohammed, whom reporters in Abuja accused of playing thebig brother with Nigeria’s electricity to the countries, said Nigeria is alsostrict with the international customers just as the Nigerians in debt recovery.
Mohammed, who is also the ManagingDirector of the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN recalled that on hisassumption of office, the outstanding bills of the international customers wereover 100 million dollars.
He stressed that Nigeria does notsupply customers electricity for free, noting that the Federal Governmentdisconnects the international customers just as it does to Nigerians when theyowe electricity debts.
Mohammed said the Federal Governmenthas now restricted its electricity supply to only contracted internationalcustomers. He added that Nigeria has insisted that the indebted internationalcustomers that were disconnected from the grid pay up their debts before theyare reconnected.